It's hard to remember a time where our musical picks weren't contained in a Spotify playlist. But just a few years ago, we were still preserving our audio masterpieces on cassette tapes. Tapedeck.org is a project of a German graffiti artist named Neck, who has been collecting images of these analog gems from another…»12/03/14 9:00am 12/03/14 9:00am

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don't get much love. That's a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony just unveiled tape that holds a whopping 148 GB per square inch, meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data. Prepare for the… »5/04/14 10:16am 5/04/14 10:16am

Remember cassette tape players? Unlike the mp3 players so prevalent today, they didn't just play music; they made some white noise too. This art installation called Binatone Galaxy by Stephen Cornford takes advantage of that fact to create a neat but eerie soundscape that's totally living in the past. So take a… »12/01/12 9:10am 12/01/12 9:10am

According to automotive experts, the last car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck was a 2010 Lexus. As that final model—a Lexus SC 430—rolled off a production line somewhere, a bit of our childhoods faded away. Or did it really? »2/08/11 12:20am 2/08/11 12:20am

Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, and I got mine a year later. The Walkman boosted the profile of audio cassettes, which had been challenging LPs and 8-Tracks as a music medium. They soon dominated the music scene. »7/15/09 11:00am 7/15/09 11:00am

It's not easy being a tape nowadays. Your only friends
are all in jail »10/20/08 7:15am 10/20/08 7:15am, everyone inexplicably likes more than you, and now people are even using you to build . This is not how it was supposed to go. In your heyday, people to your not-so-dulcet tones, unwitting grunge parents produced little grunge babies to the…